Water Damage Restoration in South Boston, MA

South Boston is mostly made land. The peninsula was widened with fill through the 1800s, and the Seaport and Fort Point were built on it outright. The housing is triple-deckers and brick rowhouses from 1850 through 1920 on the streets from Andrew Square out to City Point, with newer condo buildings along the waterfront and in the converted warehouses of Fort Point. Cellars on the filled land sit a few feet above the harbor's water table, and they know it.

On January 4, 2018, the nor'easter that set the harbor's record tide sent seawater down Seaport Boulevard, across Fort Point, and into garages and lower floors, and the March 2 storm that year did it again. The Blizzard of 1978 flooded the same low blocks. Inland, the combined sewers back up into basement drains around Andrew Square in a hard rain, and the February 2023 freeze split pipes in cold bay windows from Broadway to the beach.

South Boston water damage, Fort Point to City Point

A garage or lower unit that took seawater in a nor'easter is basement flooding cleanup with the water treated as contaminated. A triple-decker where the third-floor pipe let go is burst pipe water damage for every unit below. A condo with a stained ceiling under the unit above is ceiling water damage repair, and the condo documents decide who pays.

Seawater is its own kind of loss. Salt stays in the concrete and the framing after the water is gone, and anything porous the tide touched is treated as contaminated. If a storm reached your garage or lower unit, photograph the water line, shut off power from a dry spot, and do not run the furnace or the water heater until a technician has looked at them. In the condo buildings along the waterfront, notify the association in writing the same day, because the master policy and the unit policy split the loss along lines the documents spell out.

Where to call in South Boston

Water and sewer service comes from the Boston Water and Sewer Commission, and rebuild permits go through the city's Inspectional Services Department. At the far end of the peninsula, Castle Island and the beaches along Day Boulevard are state parkland, and the seawall there is the first thing a nor'easter hits before it reaches the houses on East Broadway.

Call (857) 524-9927 now and tell us what you see. A local water damage provider serving South Boston takes it from there.